Designed to help Canadians find investment solutions to the two big problems they’re facing: low interest rates and volatile stock markets, the Income Investor was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the top five investment newsletters in Canada. If you need income from investments with minimal risk, the Income Investor covers all types of income securities including income trusts, preferred shares, high-yielding common stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and GICs. Any security that generates cash flow is fair game for our experts.
Edited and published by Gordon Pape. Editor: Mike Keerma.
With Gavin Graham, Shawn Allen, Richard Croft, & David Kitai.
Recent Issues
tii1505 (March 12, 2015)
Preferreds fizzle… March updates: Canadian Oil Sands, iShares Canadian Short-Term Bond Index ETF, Scotiabank Series 17 preferreds, BCE Series 5 preferreds, Canaccord reset preferreds, iShares S&P/TSX Dividend Aristocrats Index ETF
tii1504 (February 26, 2015)
RRIF Portfolio continues strong… Cycling is good for you… Why energy companies are cutting dividends… This month’s Top Picks: Dorel Industries, ConocoPhillips… February updates: Ensco Plc
tii1503 (February 12, 2015)
REITs shine… February updates: Freehold Royalties, RioCan REIT, iShares 1-5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond ETF, iShares Canadian Universe Bond Index ETF, iShares Canadian Corporate Bond Index ETF… Your Questions: Indexed GICs, Oaken Financial, New wesbite
tii1502 (January 29, 2015)
Game changer… Shawn Allen on bonds vs. stocks… This month’s Top Pick: AGT Food and Ingredients… January updates: AltaGas, Bank of Nova Scotia
tii1501 (January 15, 2015)
Watch the Fed in 2015… The best of 2014… January updates: TransAlta Renewables, Milestone Apartments REIT, The Northwest Company, Norbord Inc.
tii1424 (December 18, 2014)
Oil plunge hits dividends… Canadian interest rates in 2015… December’s Top Pick: Canadian Pacific 6.25% Guaranteed Notes… >Gavin Graham’s updates: Canadian Oil Sands, Talisman Energy… December updates: National Bank Financial, Freehold Royalties, Keyera Corp., Inter Pipeline, Pembina Pipeline… Tom Slee, Deanne Gage move on
tii1423 (December 4, 2014)
Finding U.S. cash flow… Top Pick: Canaccord Series A preferreds… December updates: Baytex Energy, H&R REIT… Your Questions: Oaken Financial… Housekeeping
Recent Updates
Choice Properties REIT (TSX: CHP.UN)
The Weston family-controlled Choice Properties REIT holds its Loblaw-anchored grocery store assets. On Dec. 31, 2025, Choice owned 699 properties, consisting of 68.5 million sq. ft., with 98.2% occupancy worth $18 billion. Loblaws comprised 59% of the total, leaving 28.3 million sq. ft. for third-party retailers. 83% of the total is necessity-based retailers, including groceries, quick service restaurants, pharmacies, liquor stores, and doctors offices.
Buy
Sienna Senior Living Inc. (TSX: SIA, OTC: LWSCF)
Sienna Senior Living is one of Canada’s largest owners of seniors housing and the largest licensed long-term care provider in Ontario. The company owns a portfolio of 93 senior housing properties, operating an additional 12 for external owners. That real estate focused business and strong dividend yield makes it functionally equivalent to a REIT.
Buy
Dream Industrial REIT (TSX: DIR.UN, OTC: DREUF)
This REIT specializes in light industrial properties, mainly located in Canada but with a U.S. expansion strategy. It owns and operates a portfolio of 223 geographically diversified properties comprising approximately 20.2 million square feet of gross leasable area.
Buy
Mullen Group Ltd. (TSX: MTL)
Mullen Group is an Alberta-based transportation and logistics company, with a market cap of $2.64 billion. It’s mainly known as a trucking company, but Mullen also provides specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry, and construction industries in Western Canada. These include water management, fluid hauling, and environmental reclamation.
We recommended the stock in May 2023 at $15.46. The major attractions were a steady share price and a monthly dividend of $0.06 per share ($0.72 a year), which at the time generated a yield of 4.7%. In August 2024, the monthly dividend was raised to $0.07 ($0.84 a year), for a yield of 2.8% at the recent price of $29.75.
The rise in the share price reduced the yield, but those who bought at the time of our original recommendation have a capital gain of 86% to compensate.
Hold
Keyera Corp. (TSX: KEY, OTC: KEYUF)
Keyera provides services such as gathering, processing, fractionation, storage, transportation, and marketing liquid natural gas (LNG). It does not do any exploration or production.